Freedom Hosting sites compromised, founder arrested
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Freedom Hosting sites compromised, founder arrested
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Re: Freedom Hosting sites compromised, founder arrested
#2We should be clear that this isn't a vulnerability in the Tor software or network, but an (apparent) vulnerability in this unrelated "Freedom Hosting" company's site:
https://blog.torproject.org/blog/hidden-services-current-eve...
Re: Freedom Hosting sites compromised, founder arrested
#3Europeans point of view:
Am I the only one who feels that the US is taking over the Internet and all of our privacy with it?
Re: Freedom Hosting sites compromised, founder arrested
#4Europeans point of view: Am I the only one who feels that the US is taking over the Internet and all of our privacy with it?
Taking over? You should probably realize by now that what you see in the media about classified government ops is just the tip of the iceberg.
Considering the inherently insecure nature of computer systems, and the heavy reliance of security mechanisms on trusted authorities, you need to realized that, in fact, you've lost any privacy online a long time ago.
Re: Freedom Hosting sites compromised, founder arrested
#5Europeans point of view: Am I the only one who feels that the US is taking over the Internet and all of our privacy with it?
I'm sorry but this sounded like it just came out of r/circlejerk.
Unfortunately satire and reality mix here.
Re: Freedom Hosting sites compromised, founder arrested
#6> The JavaScript zero-day exploit that creates a unique cookie and sends a request to a random server that basically fingerprints your browser in some way, which is probably then correlated somewhere else since the cookie doesn't get deleted. Presumably it reports the victim's IP back to the FBI.
"in some way", "probably", "presumably" = I have no idea what's going on.
Re: Freedom Hosting sites compromised, founder arrested
#7We should be clear that this isn't a vulnerability in the Tor software or network, but an (apparent) vulnerability in this unrelated "Freedom Hosting" company's site: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/hidden-services-current-eve...
And possibly in Firefox (!), with some sort of JavaScript exploit. This is the most worrying part for me--does anyone have any info on what the payload does?
Re: Freedom Hosting sites compromised, founder arrested
#8Europeans point of view: Am I the only one who feels that the US is taking over the Internet and all of our privacy with it?
Europeans point of view: European bureaucrats are not any better, think about David Cameron idea of Porngate
Re: Freedom Hosting sites compromised, founder arrested
#9Europeans point of view: Am I the only one who feels that the US is taking over the Internet and all of our privacy with it?
It's not just that they're stealing everyone's privacy. They're acting like "it's foreigners, so we don't have to care" - even the latests attempts to rein in NSA make no effort to cut back its international misbehavior.
Basically, I think most civilized people have been operating on the premise that democratic western states are behaving in a vaguely civilized way towards people in other such states. But it's clear that America at least is behaving like the purest sociopath, where "friends" just means "easier to manipulate". They are breaking the unspoken international social contract, and it is going to have worse repercussions than they yet understand.
Re: Freedom Hosting sites compromised, founder arrested
#10We should be clear that this isn't a vulnerability in the Tor software or network, but an (apparent) vulnerability in this unrelated "Freedom Hosting" company's site: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/hidden-services-current-eve...
Not according to TFA:
"In this paper we expose flaws both in the design and implementation of Tor’s hidden services that allow an attacker to measure the popularity of arbitrary hidden services, take down hidden services and deanonymize hidden services Trawling for Tor Hidden Services: Detection, Measurement, Deanonymization"